North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said that the cost of hiring presidential jet for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s trips outside the country, is enough to pay 7000 trainees under the Nation Builders Corps (NACO) programme.
He stated that the hired presidential jet is costing Ghana ¢4.5million.
This, means that at a stipend of ¢700, President Akufo-Addo could have paid as many as 7000 NABCO trainees, he said.
“with the latest lavish presidential cruise costing the Ghanaian taxpayer some GHS4.9million; what this actually means is that at a stipend of GHS700 a month, President Akufo-Addo could have paid as many as 7000 NABCO trainees & perhaps avert the NABCO demonstrations,” Mr Ablakwa who has been criticizing President Akufo-Addo for abandoning the Presidential jet to hire another one for his trips, tweeted on Tuesday February 22.
Personnel of the NABCO initiative demonstrated on the streets of Accra today, Thursday February 17, following the failure of the government to pay them.
They are owed four months salary arrears but according to them, the government has failed to to pay them, hence the protest.
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